Lying back in bed changed I watched Nat combing her hair quietly, while wondering what the hell was up with her sudden change in mood and sex.
‘Fuck!’ I nearly facepalmed as I realised it. ‘She was trying to cheer me up and make forget my pains, again.’ 1 hour ago I was a trembling, shaking mess and here I am sat watching her beautiful eyes as she combed her wet red hair.
Getting up I went behind her before hugging her. “Hmm… we just showered. Not again.” Nat protested but I just leaned on her wet head.
“I know. Just give me this moment to thank you like this.” I saw her small smile in the mirror in front of her.
“Don’t forget what I told you. Just us and our kids.” I nodded to her reminder.
“Just 2 kids or do you want more?” I asked Nat.
Nat chuckled in reply. Grabbing her comb from her hand I sat her down, before doing it for her. “I heard Clint is teaching Lila how to use the bow.” Nat told me.
I guessed what Nat wanted to do. “You want to teach Sasha how to fight?”
“Just a little bit.” I smiled as I finished combing before placing the comb back on the table.
*Muah* I kissed the top of her head before hugging her neck from behind her. “As long as I can teach them Physics, Maths and IT.” Nat had a look of concern hearing this.
“Don’t you think 1 nerd is enough for the family. Is there a need for another?” I rolled my eyes and was about to reply when Sasha woke up.
Nat got up before heading towards Sasha.
As she soothed Sasha back to sleep, I watched my wife and daughter with a smile. Climbing back on bed we both laid down.
Nat grabbed my arms tightly around her before drifting off to sleep. As for me my fingers began moving ever so slowly as a red and orange mist surrounded me.
I fell asleep slowly as the illusion magic, I just cast using 2 different types of magic would make sure Nat wouldn’t be waken up by me at all.
I had a strong feeling I would be subjected to the dream once more, as I had experimented in the vicinity of the time stone.
Whenever, I came next to an infinity stone my dreams would awaken, each time getting stronger as I moved onto a different stone.
“95,489.” Voices entered my ears repeating the numbers, as great sorrow consumed my entire being.
“I am sorry David.” Suddenly my view shifted to that on top of a cliff. In front of me was the face of a person I least likely wanted to see cry.
‘NOOO!’ I tried screaming but found I couldn’t do anything. In fact, I found my whole being locked down as I watched Nat take a step back closer to the cliff.
I couldn’t even look down. It was as if my body was in a sleep paralysis.
“I will miss you.” Leaning forward she kissed my cheek.
‘NAT! DON’T! PLEASE DON’T!’ I screamed with everything I had. Mustering every power I created, every power I learned, every ability I utilised; but nothing responded not even the potatoes.
“If there is another life, find me and show me the same happiness you gave me.” She took another step back.
I felt tears emerging from my eyes.
“I love you.” She fell.
I suddenly got control of my body back. “NAT!” I screamed as I ran after her. Jumping from the cliff I used everything I had in me to reach her before she reached the ground first. Magic, chaos, superpowers, yet nothing was useful as the more I tried to reach her the further she went.
*Thud* Her body rebounded from the floor from the impact as life left her eyes. “NOOOO!” Anguish overtook my soul.
“95,489.” The voices appeared once again as I scrambled to reach Nat’s body but found my body moving further and further away from her.
“I am sorry David.” Suddenly my view shifted to that on top of a cliff. In front of me was the face of a person I least likely wanted to see cry.
‘What!?’ Confusion filled me seeing Nat alive. I felt my body was paralysed once more.
“I will miss you.” Leaning forward Nat kissed my cheeks once more.
‘No! Stop! Please!’ I begged as I realised what was happening.
“If there is another life, find me and show me the same happiness you gave me.” She took a step back.
Tears emerged from my eyes as I saw her foot leaving ground.
“I love you.” She fell.
“NOOO!” I jumped after her again and again and again and again… and again…
It kept repeating. “I am sorry David.” The view once more shifted on top of the cliff.
I never got tired of trying to save her each time as the loop repeated itself. As long as I found a way, I could save her I won’t care even if my soul was subjected to hellish torture.
‘Wait… soul!’ An idea suddenly entered my head. ‘That’s it!’ Hope went through my entire being as I jumped in after Nat just like the previous dozen times.
“95,489!” The voices came once more, but they no longer filled my being with grief as I had hope now. I had hope and a solution now, even if Nat and my kids would loathe me for the rest of our lives.
“I will save you!” I roaringly declared amidst the chanting of numbers.
The voices suddenly stopped as darkness enveloped me.
“WAHHH!” I opened my eyes to see Nat cuddling a tearful Sasha in her arms and rocking her back and forth as the rays of morning shone behind them.
Feeling the wet tears on my cheek I wiped it off as I realised, I had cried once more in my dreams. This time I had hope.
I dispelled the illusion of me asleep from Nat and Sasha. “Need help?” I asked her with a smile as a plan for the future formed in my head. A plan to forever stop Nat from time travelling or ever having to make any sort of sacrifice.
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Mum, dad, and Jack moved back to home after seeing we could take care of everything few days later.
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Dad occasionally came with lunch prepared by mum for the first few days before they noticed we were fine.
After that they came to check up on us and spent time with Sasha during the weekends with Jack, due to him having to go to school.
During the weekdays we took Sasha with us to sight-seeing or hang out with Laura and Barton.
December arrived and it was Sasha’s 1st Christmas.
“David no cheating!” Nat scolded me seeing me build a Christmas tree using my bots.
“But Sasha likes it.” I pointed at my smiling daughter causing Nat to roll her eyes as she picked up the fairy lights from the box.
“How many times have I told you no tiny robots near Sasha?” She looked at me in anger.
Hearing this I smiled as I leaned into my daughter’s ears before whispering loud enough for Nat to hear. “Sasha seems like mamma is angry. Daddy will show you something awesome later.” I told her as the Christmas tree made of robots crumbled into a portal.
“Goo! GA!” My daughter exclaimed in excitement while her tiny fingers caressed my face. God knew what she was excited for, but it completely fit the situation right now.
“Like father, like daughter!” Nat left shaking her head.
“Hahaha!” I laughed as I played with my daughter.
“Gaaa!” My daughter voiced out
“Don’t worry, your father has several cards up his sleeves to make your mother smile.” I boasted before my daughter pretending, we were having a fully understanding conversation.
“Gaa!”
“What? Why should I tell her sorry? You were the one that asked me to show you, my majestic bots.” I defended with a face of injustice.
“Goo!”
Just as I was about to reply to Sasha, I heard Nat’s voice. “David! Are you going do the Christmas tree or not?” I sighed as I stood up.
“We will talk later. Now I have to hurry, or mamma bear will get angry. Trust me you don’t want to see your mamma angry.” I playfully poked my daughter nose making her smile.
Placing Sasha down on her crib I got to work. “Who the hell invented this crazy idea of bringing real trees into homes, in this 21st century?” I wondered as I picked up the tree that Nat and I had brought for Christmas, under her request of wanting a proper family Christmas.
Finished putting the tree up I began decorating as Nat came in shivering. “It’s cold.” She shivered as she hugged me with the snow on her clothes.
“Stop it, you leech. I will get wet now.” I told her off feeling her snow melting onto my clothes.
“You are soo warm.” She smiled as she hugged me tighter.
“That’s why I said I will do the lights and you decorate the tree.” I began emitting a bit more heat in order to warm her up.
“You will just make it too perfect. Sometimes a bit of imperfection is needed to make things perfect.” She stated as she rubbed onto my body trying to absorb as much heat as possible.
I smiled hearing this, rubbing the top of her head for a second, I went back to decorating with Nat hugging me from behind. “Look Sasha is watching us with a smile.” Nat pointed out.
I turned to my side to see Sasha looking at us with a smile. “Your mother is too lazy to turn on the heater Sasha.” I chuckled as I told my daughter.
This elicited a response from my daughter. “Gah!”
“I am not!” Nat protested with a pout. “Your father is nice and warm.” She justified to the judge of our house.
“Goo!”
“Yeah, I am guilty of being too warm.” I bowed my head from the accusation only for Nat to kiss my cheek.
“Yeah, you are.” Nat spoke as she went back to hugging me.
We spend the whole day redecorating the entire house inside and outside.
“You guys really went over the top with the Christmas theme.” My dad gave me a lost look as he arrived with mum and Jack.
“Shut up!” Mum slapped dad in his arms. “It’s so pretty.” Meanwhile mum looked at the decorated house in excitement.
“Glad you liked it.” Nat went forward with Sasha as Jack ran off exploring the house.
We had a large feast prepared and my bots made sure to capture every single moment of us.
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I started noticing some rapid changes with hydra. First, they could hardly cope with defending themselves from all their enemies and government organisation attacking them.
At this rate they would barely hold themselves together for another 10 years at most.
This was due to 2 reasons, and both were because of me. 1 all their members were extremely short on money. 2 they had barely limited access to Chitauri technology due to me having destroyed all sorts of remnants of Chitauri in this planet as they arrived.
Only few Chitauri technology survived when some of the Chitauri went outside Manhattan, thanks to my bald teacher.
Course of future was changing but sometimes I noticed the ancient one occasionally interfering in certain places to set things right.
We moved back to New York not long after new year. Natasha started actively taking missions to help stabilise the Avengers after I asked her to under the request of the Ancient one.
She was very reluctant to separate from Sasha and me, having gotten used to our normal everyday life. This ended up with me opening a portal to her room, wherever Natasha had to go for mission. I would teleport with Sasha next to her in her room when she was about to sleep. This way she never went apart from Sasha and me for too long.
Meanwhile I ran several new projects in courtesy of the revelations from the time stone.
One of those projects was to focus my attention on Avengers. My goal was to establish Avengers as a private global defence unit against humanity's common threat.
This was to mainly prevent them breaking apart like in the civil war. I wanted all of them united for my future plans.
Few disagreements, enticed by Tony, were put forward at my suggestion simply because he didn’t like me. We had a strange love hate relationship I kind of didn’t know when it started. ‘Was it when I first visited him or when I went to pick him up from the desert?’ I wondered.
A simple blueprint of improvement to his weapons system and arc reactor caused him to hole himself up in a room working on figuring out the blueprint for a while, without any disturbance for anyone.
Our current task was dealing with whatever remained of Hydra.
One day as I was feeding Sasha her bottle of milk the knowledge of unlocking Asgardian physiology and assimilating it in my body system appeared.
What I wanted from an Asgardian’s body was the access to Odin force, the name of the magic source Asgardians uses. The magic I currently use is called Eldritch magic which is magic that is drawn from dimensional energies.
Odin Force magic however is drawn from a different source, and I believe it to be more powerful but comes with the heavy cost. The reason why I think it is very powerful is because of Thor.
Thor held together the rings of Nidavellir after breaking the ice between the rings which should require him to have at least 2 billion tons of force. Now if he always had that much strength, he could have easily laid waste Thanos' army.
My theory is that during the process of holding together the rings he accessed the powerful Odin force and used it to enhance his strength subconsciously like how eldritch magic can be used to enhance people’s strength.
I wanted access to that Odin Force. The power that caused Odin to be named the ‘The Most Powerful Being in the Nine Realms’. Although it came with a penalty of having to enter a deep sleep, I considered it worth it.
I just planned to use Odinforce by small amount, not to the extent that it would send me into stasis for however long. I needed all that power to stop Thanos before he snapped.
Some might say I am going for a bit of an overkill with all these powers. However, I didn’t want to take a chance with that purple titan at all, especially with Nat’s life in the line.
For my plans to work I had to make sure everything was perfect or else…
I have been making some plans to deal with Thanos for a while and this was plan A. Use overpowering force to defeat Thanos and stop his snap and boy was he in for a surprise at what I have prepared for him.
Plan B was time heist but with a twist… a twist I hope never comes to pass.
With the knowledge of Asgardian physiology now in my hands I began preparation for the next important thing. ‘Assimilate Asgardian physiology into SICHE!’
The good thing was Odin and Heimdall will never know that I managed to unlock the Asgardian physiology until it was too late. This was because Heimdall was incapable of peering into my mind, where it was being decoded, the same went for Odin.
Months passed before it was April 25th, 2015. All the Avengers had moved to Sudan to fight with Hydra units there.
After their conflict I upgraded all their kits except Thor, Tony, and Rhodes. Tony was simply unwilling to let me do the upgrades for his own tech which I understood. It was his pride and poor Rhodes was dragged into it because he was using Tony’s armour.
Thor didn’t believe in my capabilities of upgrading anything he had so I let him believe as he wished.
Clint got energy arrows which were just a simple smooth fletching that when equipped put next to his bow extends into an energy arrow weapon. Due to this his quiver could hold more arrows since there were plenty of space for fletching inside his quiver. He also had a powerful suit which could take much more hit before something could kill him.
Rogers just got a powerful suit in his same design along with an even more powerful magnetic gloves with a guidance system built into both his shield and gloves; it can now come back to him no matter how far away the shield is, while avoiding or hitting people if needed be.
As for Nat, a powerful suit in her usual style that could discharge shock of varying volts from anywhere in her body was her preference.
For Sam, I just made a much powerful, thinner, and smaller Exo-7 Falcon to which he was still getting used to.
Bruce, I just made stretchable clothes for him that didn’t shred when he became the hulk and would still fit him when he became Bruce once more.
Needless to say, everyone was grateful the one being the most grateful was. “Why didn’t you make this sooner!?” Bruce asked me in annoyance as he pointed at his combat suit.
“You look much more awesome with the ripped pants as hulk.” I pointed out earning an annoyed look from him as he threw the book on the desk at my face, which I easily avoided.